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Mastering Go

Mastering Go

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Mastering Go

Mastering Go

4.8 (27)
By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Mastering Go, now in its fourth edition, remains the go-to resource for real-world Go development. This comprehensive guide delves into advanced Go concepts, including RESTful servers, and Go memory management. This edition brings new chapters on Go Generics and fuzzy Testing, and an enriched exploration of efficiency and performance. As you work your way through the chapters, you will gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go topics, including concurrency and the operation of the Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You will be engaged in real-world exercises, build network servers, and develop robust command-line utilities. With in-depth chapters on RESTful services, the WebSocket protocol, and Go internals, you are going to master Go's nuances, optimization, and observability. You will also elevate your skills in efficiency, performance, and advanced testing. With the help of Mastering Go, you will become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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A package for working with SQLite

This section will develop a Go package for working with a given database schema stored on an SQLite database, with the end goal of demonstrating how to develop, store, and use a package. When interacting with specific schemas and tables in your application, you usually create separate packages with all the database-related functions—this also applies to NoSQL databases.

Go offers a generic package (https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql) for working with databases. However, each database requires a specific package that acts as the driver and allows Go to connect and work with that specific database.

The steps for creating the desired Go package are as follows:

  • Downloading the necessary external Go packages for working with SQLite.
  • Creating package files.
  • Developing the required functions.
  • Using the Go package for developing utilities and testing its functionality.
  • Using CI/CD tools for automation (this is...

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